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m 1 A. M. SGHAPPA. GARMENT FASTENER- ISM-548,010. Patented Oct. 15,1895.

UNITED STATES PATENT EErcE.

ALBERT M. SCHAPPA, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE W. & E. T.FITCH COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

GARMENT-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 548,010, dated October15, 1895. Application filed June 26,1895. Serial No. 554,080. (Nomodeh)To 00% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT M. SCHAPPA,

of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new Improvement in Garment-Fasteners; and I do hereby declarethe following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawin gsand the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, andexact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute partof this specification, and represent, 1n Figure 1, a front view of agarment, showing the garment-fasteners applied thereto; Fig. 2, anenlarged view of one of the fasteners, Fig. 3, a side view of thefastener detached.

This invention relates to an improvement in fastening devices forgarments, and particularly such as are applicable for and commonly usedon heavy rubber coats, such as worn by policemen, firemen, and othersWho require heavy rubber coats. A common fastening for such coats is anordinary snap-hook such as is known as the German snap. These snaps arecommonly affixed to the garment by having a strap passed through the eyeand cemented or riveted to the coat, a second strap passing transverselyacross the body below the nose of the hook and its ends secured to thecoat, the other member of the fastener being a metal eye or loopsuitably secured to the other flap of the coat. In fastoning andunfastening the coat and in use the eyerubs over the rubber fasteningacross the body of the hook and that end of the hook soon becomesdetached.

The object of this invention is to avoid this difficulty andso protectthe securing-strap at the outer end of the hook that contact with theeye or loop is avoided; and it consists in the construction ashereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

The hook is formed with a loop A at one end and a nose B at the oppositeend in the usual manner of snap-hooks. Transversely through the body ofthe snap and below the nose B is a slot C.

D is the spring, riveted to the loop end of the body in the usualmanner, its forward end projecting forward and under the nose B of thehook. The loop end of the hook is secured to the garment in the usualmanner by a strap E, which extends through the loop A, and its endssecured to the garment]? by cement, rivets, or in any other suitablemanner.

G is a strap which extends through the slot 0 and its ends properlysecured to the garment. The hook is thus securely held in properposition.

H is a loop or eye of the desired form, and may be attached to a flap Iof the garment in any desired manner, preferably so that the eye may bereadily engaged with the hook. By thus securing the outer end of thehook to the garment a bridge is formed across the strap G, whichprevents contact between the strap and the eye or loop H. The hook isreadily cast with the slot, which therefore does not increase the costof manufacture, and the hook is as readily fixed to the garment as werethose of previous construction. Thus there is no increase in the cost ofmaking the garment, yet its wearing qualities are manifestly greater.

It will be understood from the foregoing that I do not claim, broadly, ahook or a snaphook as a garment-fastener; but

What I do claim is The herein described fastener for garments,consisting of a body formed with a loop at one end and a hook at theopposite end, said body formed with a transverse slot beneath the noseof the hook, and a spring secured at the loop end and extending forwardunder the nose of the hook, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT M. SOHAPPA.

Witnesses:

LUoIUs H. PRINDLE, HENRY B. Rows.

